Science is part of the reality of living; it is the what, the how, and the why of everything in our experience.

Along with the possibility of extinction of mankind by nuclear war, the central problem of our age has therefore become the contamination of man's total environment with such substances of incredible potential for harm-substances that accumulate in the tissues of plants and animals and even penetrate the germ cells to shatter or alter the very material of heredity upon which the shape of the future depends.

It is not half so important to know as to feel.

Science is part of the reality of living; it is the what, the how, and the why of everything in our experience.

Then the song of a whitethroat, pure and ethereal, with the dreamy quality of remembered joy.

If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in.

When we go down to the low-tide line, we enter a world that is as old as the earth itself - the primeval meeting place of the elements of earth and water, a place of compromise and conflit and eternal change.